A Return to an Old Haunt (ˊˋ)
Icewind Dale Prison—The End of Pleasure.
It stood in the northern part of Icewind Dale, a hexagonal prison tower near the Sea of Moving Ice. It held people who had committed crimes in the Sword Coast region.
Of course, they were usually guilty of crimes that were neither too serious nor too trivial.
After all, those who committed major crimes were most likely executed outright or held in solitary confinement. They would never be sent to Icewind Dale.
The reason Fouch wasn't executed or kept in solitary confinement was that he was just an ordinary man.
As a conspirator, he had indeed taken part in Neverwinter's "Crimson Death" incident, poisoning the former Lord Neverember, attempting to steal a vast fortune, and slaughtering residents. But the chief culprits behind the incident were still Szass Tam and his evil lich, Sazzasstan. And the Red Wizard, not Fouch, had carried out the plan to harm tens of thousands of Neverwinter's people. So, given that Fouch posed little danger and wasn't particularly capable—and considering that he might still possess some important information—
The Lords' Alliance Council had decided not to execute him outright. Instead, they had sent him to Icewind Dale Prison—The End of Pleasure, where he was made to cut ice on the great lake near the Sea of Moving Ice alongside the other prisoners.
"The End of Pleasure" had always been under the jurisdiction of the Lords' Alliance, a loose alliance of rulers from the cities and towns of the North. Its current members mainly included Baldur's Gate, Mirabar, Neverwinter, Silvermoon City, Waterdeep, Yartar, Amphail, Daggerford, Longsaddle, and other settlements. And, of course, the dwarves' stronghold, Mithral Hall.
The prisoners held at The End of Pleasure were usually those who had committed serious crimes against